Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 00:46:32 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Denis J. Cirulis" <monster@okb.lv>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <024301c0a7de$930db020$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <OFA420CC63.6AEAEDB6-ON87256A08.006994B1@smed.com> <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <20010308115639.A4298@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr> <022801c0a7c0$024f8860$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308131205.A1029@okb.lv>
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> You're wrong about power failures: first you can switch to > ReiserFS and after power failure you wouldn't be asked to do > fsck. Journaling FS rocks, but I haven't seen any for FreeBSD. Our machines are located at various remote sites & typically its difficult to get there at a moments notice. The linux systems typically failed to re-start automatically whereas FreeBSD ones do. The result was that the systems stayed down for some time until someone had the time to go fix the thing ....more often than not it was found that the linux ones were so badly corrupted the only solution was a re-install. I'm not aware of one instance of one of our FreeBSD systems needing re-install after a power failure. There is a technical basis to this stuff ..... apprently linus & his followers chose to adopt a different way of writing files than with "proper"unixes in order to gain a bit more speed, whereas BSD / Solaris / SCO / HP-UX etc considered reliability of higher significance than outright speed. This issue has been discussed several times in the 'questions" list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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